“To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. “
Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940

So I used to see all those commercials with musical collections. A bunch of great songs that someone has put together to try and sell to your sense of nostalgia. I used to dig them for the sake of being able to buy some classics, when I might not be able to track down the individual albums. Recently, I’ve had different problem.

What does it mean when they have an entire collection that you actually want and remember every song? I owned (and still do) some of the albums these songs came from. I was around when they came out. I recall which ones only had one hit (which is part of this collection). I remember how people were dressing. To take it further I remember what Hip-Hop I was listening to at the time. Is this another official sign that I am old? Add to it all the fact that I seriously consider buying it…how will I ever get all of those songs any other way? Do you know how much I’d spend on itunes? That is if they have all of them. The real thing indicator here is this:

These aren’t songs my mothers generation talked about or familiarized me with. Matter of fact my mothers generation didn’t give a damn about this music. Even alot of my friends didn’t listen to it. At that time of my life I had certain friends who could actually elaborate on current rock music…being as everyone knew “Under The Bridge” and “Welcome to the Jungle”. So the songs in this collection become specific to me. As a result…I feel old.

Ummm Sidenote: Does anyone know if Mark McGrath was ever considered a singer? I remember Sugar Ray. The band could play, the Dj mixed and scratched, but looking back it seems like his talent was looking into the camera…which meant he had more career options then the rest of the band on random E! programs. You really know his song career is over cause he is in a commercial selling a collection that includes a song he did. I see you too Brain McKnight.